Hourly Integration of Variable Resources
Civil Society Institute
Project completed May 2013
Synapse examined a number of important issues related to integrating variable resources in ten regional power systems within the United States. Synapse modeled hourly dispatch for power systems with substantial differences in renewable, fossil, and nuclear resources. Specifically, this project examined how well hourly regional load can be balanced in a future with no coal generation, reduced nuclear capacity, and substantially more energy efficiency, wind and solar generation, and storage.